Category: Evony Strategy Tips

All guides regarding the strategic game play of Evony will be posted here.

Restoring a “Dead” City

Restoring a Crippled/Destroyed City A Crippled City has 0 Population, 0 Loyalty, and less then 100 Public Grievances A Destroyed City has 0 Population, 0 Loyalty, and 100 Public Grievances I will explain how to fully restore both types of cities quickly and with a minimum of help from other players. Of course a little… Continue reading Restoring a “Dead” City

Evony Resource Cities

Evony players often talk about having “specialized cities”. This means that they have a “farm/food city” or “sawmill/lumber city” or “quarry/stone city” or “ironmine/iron city”. Your guess is probably right – that the particular city only has farms, sawmills, quarries, or ironmines. What is the advantage of that? Farm & Food Cities: We believe Farm… Continue reading Evony Resource Cities

Evony Prestige & Battle Changes

Originally stated by Dawnseeker, an Evony liason representative: “In our efforts to make Evony more balanced, we are considering implementing a change to Prestige to prevent players from gaining Prestige at high rates by bypassing normal progression. What we will do is cap Prestige at a fixed amount, based on the player’s title: Civilian…… 100k… Continue reading Evony Prestige & Battle Changes

Evony Server Manager – Beta!

Hods.com has released a great tool for all Evony players! After hours of work, we’ve completed the beta stage of the Evony Server Manager. Short summary: This manager allows you to access multiple servers or worlds at the same time on the same page. This is very useful for people who play on many servers… Continue reading Evony Server Manager – Beta!

Evony Database – Resources

We’ve added a new section for the Evony database: General. In this General category, we’ve completely finished adding the “resources” section. We plan to add multiple other parts in addition to redoing our Evony buildings database and finishing the Evony items portion of the database. Evony Gold, Evony Food, Evony Lumber, Evony Stone, and Evony… Continue reading Evony Database – Resources

Using the Evony Community Forum

Many players, or members, of Evony do not fully understand how the official Evony Community Forums work. This guide will answer all of the misunderstandings and should teach you a few things about forum boards. Guide Last Updated: August 9th, 2009 1. Basics a. How to register a forum account b. How to create a… Continue reading Using the Evony Community Forum

Evony Database and Popular Posts

Two changes to Hods Realm: one major, one minor. 1. The Evony Database has been added! This means that you can access information on Evony buildings, items and more! Keep in mind that it will take time to add all of the individual parts so stay tuned! 2. The top 10 most popular posts has… Continue reading Evony Database and Popular Posts

Massive Evony Armies

What would an army of Cataphracts do? What would happen if I sent 100,000 to attack my enemy? What would 75,000 battering rams do? I’d love to see my enemy’s face! So..what would happen if you had an unreal amount of a powerful unit? Would you completely dominate the game? The simple answer is –… Continue reading Massive Evony Armies

Chapter 14 – Communication and Misinformation

Communication and Misinformation There are a few forms of communication in this game, all of which are important, when utilized correctly. There are the (currently 4) types of chat, and the two different mail types. Chat: A live room in which you can talk to other player online. They type of chat lets you know… Continue reading Chapter 14 – Communication and Misinformation

Chapter 13 – Prestige and Honor

13. Prestige/Honor Prestige and honor can be two confusing things. How do you earn them? What do they do? Well, in the simple form, nothing. But they show everything. Prestige: Gained by building units and buildings, researching techs and killing NPC’s Honor: Gained by killing more of the enemy than you lose. Must be another… Continue reading Chapter 13 – Prestige and Honor

Importance of Heroes

So everybody talks about the importance of range, the importance of your technology levels…but what really is the most important aspect of Evony? The answer is here and now. Heroes are the most important part of Evony. You’re about to find out why. Heroes are the foundation of a strong civilization. 1. A hero with… Continue reading Importance of Heroes

Conquer a Level 10 NPC – Norm & Cheap

Hods Realm has released the first two guides to conquering a level 10 NPC. These are the first of many to come. We have tested over a dozen different ways to conquer a level 10 NPC and are going to share the best ones with all of you! Some of the processes are ones that… Continue reading Conquer a Level 10 NPC – Norm & Cheap

Chapter 11 – Defending Yourself

Defending yourself: Something that many players want to learn how to do is how to adequately defend themselves. Here is the how to on defending yourself: Hint: Looking weak. Don’t look like a target till you are strong enough to defeat your enemies. Keep your town hall below lvl 7 and upgrade everything else. Traps… Continue reading Chapter 11 – Defending Yourself

Chapter 10 – Buying Things / Speaking

Buying things/ Speaking A question in this game occurs on whether or not it is indeed, “Free Forever.” Well, there isn’t a single thing in the game you need to buy. I’d say on average, players who buy are 20% more successful (Prestige wise) than others. I advocate supporting UMGE for this great game, but          … Continue reading Chapter 10 – Buying Things / Speaking

Chapter 9 – Combat Phacts

Combat Phacts Phacts: Pseudo or fake facts. A lot of faulty information surrounds combat. Walls: At some point in the game when you attack walls, you may notice that while the enemy has no defenders, you lost your men. This usually happens because of small contingents of archer only forces fail to break the wall.… Continue reading Chapter 9 – Combat Phacts

Chapter 6 – Resourcing Versus Outsourcing

Resourcing versus Outsourcing An important thing to make sure you do in this game is to gather goods. There are a few ways to do this: The gatherer approach. All players go through this. It is simply when you build lots of city things so you can increase flow of goods. Hint: Important Numbers:  1800… Continue reading Chapter 6 – Resourcing Versus Outsourcing